Excavating-bur for dentists.



No. 788,906. PATENTED MAY 2, 1905. W. HOMANN. EXGAVATING BUR FOR DENTISTS.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 15, 1903.

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WILLY HOMANN, OF DUSSELDORF, GERMANY.

EXCAVATlNG-BUR FOR DENTISTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,906, dated May 2, 1905.

Appli tion file October 15, 1903. Serial No. 177,126- I To (ti/Z whom it may concern:

Be itknown that Ll/VILL'Y HOMANN, a citizen of the German Empire, and a resident of Diisscldorf, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Excavating-Burs for Dentists, of which the following is a speciiication.

In excavating-burs ordinarily used in dental operations there are acute angled prominences, and it occurs not unfrequentl y that the cutting edges or points of thesaid prominences, or even the latter themselves, break. To avoid this, a comparatively small degree of hardness is imparted to these edges in the manufacture of the instrument, an early wearing out and getting dull being the consequence.

My invention refers to an improvement in dental burs which is described herein and illustrated by the accompanying drawings and adapted to avoid the aforementioned difficulty, offering at the same time various other ad vantages hereinafter mentioned.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a dental drill embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a section through the drill-head.

As can be readily seen from the drawings herewith, the dental bur is provided with teeth which are backed off to produce the oblique facets a. The front or cutting edge of each tooth thus forms an acute angle, while its back forms an obtuse angle. Between the teeth the furrows are made in the shape of concave recesses 6. The face of the bur is provided with a series of radial cutting edges 0, extending from the center of the bur to the cutting edges of the several teeth. The radial cutting edges on the face of the bur serve to deepen the cavity in the tooth, while the 4 backed-off teeth serve to widen such cavity. The larger volume of the prominenees near the cutting edge and the obtuse angle allow the imparting of a higher degree of hardness,

so hat they will stand more and wear out not 45 so concave furrows between the teeth, and radial 6O cutting edges on the face of the bur that extend from its center to the cutting edges of the teeth, substantially as specified.

. Signed by me at Dusseldorf, Germany, this 29th day of September, 1903.

VVILLY HOMAN N.

VVitn esses WILLIAM ESSENWEIN, RUDOLPH LIEB ER. 

